President Donald Trump is finishing the calendar year with a bang having achieved his tax slash and a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate to boot.

A top adviser to the president gleefully told reporters Thursday that 'the fruits of labor that's being done this year will be realized in 2018 and beyond' as the administration revealed its intent to tackle welfare reform, infrastructure investment and an immigration revamp before a set of federal elections next year that are looking to be a bloodbath.

To get what he wants his second year in office, however, Trump must pull over nine Democrats in the U.S. Senate where budget tricks the GOP used this year to get what it wanted won't suffice.

In a tweet on Friday morning the president acknowledged the changing dynamic, claiming, 'At some point, and for the good of the country, I predict we will start working with the Democrats in a Bipartisan fashion. Infrastructure would be a perfect place to start.'

Later in the Oval Office, Trump pledged: 'We're going to get infrastructure. Infrastructure is the easiest of the all. We're very well on our way.'

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President Donald Trump is finishing the calendar year with a bang having achieved his tax slash and a repeal of Obamacare's individual mandate to boot. Trump pledged Friday as the signed that bill: 'We're going to get infrastructure. Infrastructure is the easiest of the all. We're very well on our way'

To get what he wants his second year in office, however, Trump must pull over nine Democrats in the U.S. Senate where budget tricks the GOP used this year to get what it wanted won't suffice

'Infrastructure is by far the easiest, people want it, Republicans and Democrats. We're going to have tremendous Democrat support on infrastructure, as you know,' he said. 'I could have started with infrastructure. I actually wanted to save the easy one for the one down the road. So we'll be having that done pretty quickly.'

Raw partisanship will not carry Trump through the 11 months that will determine the backside of his term in the Oval Office.

Democrats, with the help of the Independents who side with their caucus, will hold 49 U.S. Senate seats to Republicans' 51 in the new year.

At a 60-vote threshold for nearly every action item on Trump's agenda, there can be no historic accomplishments for the president that do not come at the cost of a Democratic compromise.

Trump is looking for approval of $200 billion in federal funds that tip off $800 billion in infrastructure investments from state and local governments and private partnerships.

In a briefing on the administration's 2018 outlook on Thursday, a senior official said it was the White House's 'hope' that it could convince Democrats to support legislation that boosts their priorities in addition to the president's.

Chief among those is an immigration deal that would allow illegal residents who were brought to the U.S. as minors to stay indefinitely as part of restructured Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program so long as Trump is not prevented from building his border wall and moving the nation to a merit-based visa system.

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'January is going to be a busy month, undoubtedly. I think that there's a lot of things that Democrats want in a budget deal, and DACA is one of those,' the official said. 'There's going to be a lot that we're trying to do, and I think you'll see us unveil in particular an infrastructure package that we hope will be bipartisan.'

The pivot to bipartisanship came hours after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared on Fox News to rail against Democrats as having no plan, no agenda and nothing to talk about other than their assaults on the sitting president.

'Hopefully some of the Democrats will make some New Year's resolutions to come back and talk about working with this president to help Americans instead of working to attack this president,' she said. 'It's gotten them nowhere.'

Her interview came as Trump's administration publicly celebrated its tax cut victory Thursday morning with a round of television appearances from the North Lawn of the White House that gave them a platform to proclaim that the president was giving Americans a massive holiday gift.

'I think everybody in America is going to have a great time celebrating Christmas after this first year under President Donald Trump,' Sanders said in her hit on Fox & Friends.

Behind the curtain White House officials and party leaders are said to be bracing for a pendulum swing that will rob the GOP of its command of the U.S. Senate.

ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS: At a 60-vote threshold for nearly every action item on Trump's agenda, there can be no historic accomplishments for the president next year that do not come at the cost of a Democratic compromise

According to Politico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worried privately that the lower and upper chambers will turn from red to blue in the midterms.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has raised concerns that a spate of Republicans in purple districts will retire opening up opportunities for a Democratic takeover.

'In a year like this, you better not take anything for granted,' Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent, one of the Republicans that's retiring, told Politico. 'I think most members know this is going to be a really tough challenge this cycle.'

Presidents have typically hit the road after their State of the Union addresses to sell their vision. Trump is likely to take his message to states and districts the GOP believes will decide the make-up of Congress.

Republicans will have an especially steep climb next year in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, California and Illinois where voters will be now be capped at a $10,000 property tax deduction. The reform will offset the income tax rate slash that's included in the law for many.

Midterm elections have historically been unpleasant for the party that holds the presidency and Trump may not be able to defy those odds no matter how much campaigning or Democratic arm wrestling he does.

'History tells us it will be challenging. How challenging, time will tell,' White House Political Director Bill Stepien told Politico. 'But we have a strong sense of optimism.'